Monday, June 08, 2015

Stride-2015: Bigger Longer & Uncut

HOHHOT, June 3 (ChinaMil) -- The curtain of the PLA's trans-military area command (MAC) actual-troop confrontation training in 2015 has risen with the "Stride 2015• Zhurihe A" series exercise kicking off at the Zhurihe training base in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on June 1.

According to a person from the exercise commanding team, the "Stride 2015 • Zhurihe" series exercise has nine new changes compared with last year.

Larger scale: ten combined brigades of the PLA Army will participate in the "Stride 2015 • Zhurihe" while the number of the brigades in last year's exercise was seven.

More rounds of confrontation: compared with last year's single round of positional battle of attacking and defending, this year's confrontation has three more rounds of troops' advancing and deploying, positional battle of attacking and defending, and seizure of city landmarks.

Intensified systemic confrontation: according to operational requirements, new strength including air force, army aviation force, special troops, technical reconnaissance troops, electronic countermeasure troops and psywar units will coordinate the participating land forces in the "Stride 2015 • Zhurihe" .

Higher difficulty and intensity: the battlefield maneuvering distance of wheeled vehicles in the exercise is increased by 100km, and 10km is added to the march distance in the long-range raid. Participating troops will come cross difficult situations including dangerous terrain conditions, complex electromagnetic environment, air reconnaissance, long-range strike, harassing attack by special operation forces, nuclear and biochemical attacks in the exercises while they are given less time for launching a combat than last year.

Verification of operational experiments highlighted: the participating troops are scheduled to use the operation testing system in the combined operation experiment center of the training base to verify their combat schemes before the actual troop confrontation begins.

Night combat training enhanced: It is stipulated that the maneuver distance at night in the periods of long-distance force projection and battlefield maneuver shall be no less than 100 km. The number of night-time targets for live ammunition shooting training was increased, and aviation was also dispatched at night to carry out reconnaissance and attack for battlefield maneuvering and on evacuation areas.

Realizing air-to-ground simulated confrontation: The air force actual-troop combat system is improved and the interconnection between the actual-troop combat systems of the ground and air forces has become possible for the first time, which ensures the preliminary integration of the ground and air battle situations.

Stringent avoidance system: The group armies to which the participating troops belong are not allowed to interfere in the operational commanding in the exercise. The members of the exercise directing team coming from the PLA's military area commands shall not participate in the directing and evaluating of the exercises conducted by the troops from their own military area commands.

Monday, June 09, 2014

Photos of th day: playing laser tag at Zhurihe

"Stride 2014 Zhurihe" series exercise unveiled

(Source: China Military Online) 2014-06-03

ZHURIHE, June 3 (ChinaMil) -- As an armored brigade under the Nanjing
Military Area Command (MAC) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
(PLA) maneuvered for thousands of kilometers into the hinterland of the
grassland in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the
"Stride 2014 Zhurihe" series exercise was unveiled at the Zhurihe
Training Base under the Beijing MAC of the PLA on May 31, 2014.

In the following two months, a combined army brigade from each of the
five MACs, namely the Guangzhou MAC, the Jinan MAC, the Shenyang MAC,
the Chengdu MAC and the Lanzhou MAC, will enter the training base
successively according to the randomly selected sequence to carry out a
concentrated examination and assessment.

This series exercise
aims at providing an example and standard for the PLA to carry out
normalized actual-combat training at military base by relying on the
Zhurihe Training Base and the first professional "blue army" of the PLA
as well as through the whole-process confrontation and assessment by
centering on the combat missions of the troop units participating in the
exercise, according to the leaders from the Military Training
Department of the General Staff Headquarters (GSH) of the PLA.

At least 85 percent of the actual strength of personnel and equipment of
the troop units participating in the exercise must be assigned,
including all personnel in the key posts and all new equipment.

The exercise' directing department has classified the exercise into
four stages including maneuvering projection, battlefield maneuvering,
actual-troop confrontation and comprehensive examination with 1,062
assessment points and 65 factors and will precisely assess the overall
combat capability of the troop units based on the quantified indexes
according to a score system with 1,000 as full mark.

In
addition, the directing department also launched a series of "bans": no
strength and equipment adjustment without permission, no repeated use of
the lost forces, no entrance to the exercise field in advance to carry
out reconnaissance and survey, no change of the actual-combat system's
performance, no preplans, no deduction, and so on.